Yesterday I dug up and composted about 2 square metres of phlomis russeliana which is a plant I like but not when it's on a takeover bid. I also dug up several clumps of sorbaria which has turned out to be a suckering shrub. Fine when it stays along the boundary but not when invading my border.
Next on the list is lysimachia clethroides alba which I really like but has also proved to be jut a bit too happy so a couple of clumps will be dug up for a newly cleared area over and the rest will be composted.
Next year's big project is to clear and replant the beds around the pond. They've been invaded by flag iris and yellow dead nettle and rush grasses which can all go.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
The soil in that area is an ongoing curiosity to me as a fairly new gardener and it's quite likely the buzzez didn't like it. It's improved clay, not amazing drainage and bakes hard in summer. I've lost a couple of achillea over a winter which I would expect but others excel in the area and I have non-species tulips repeat flowering...I'll dig in some more muck and dig out some more clag and see what happens
Cardoon, Yucca gloriosa, boring green phormium, and pink pampas grass have gone this year and a yellow tree peony has a new home with a neighbour. I have my eye on the photinia red robin which I've fallen out with.
I too have badgers, bats, mice, birds, fungus, slugs, snails, bees, wasps, beetles, ladybirds etc... all the life you list. And yet I chose to use chemicals too, on a controlled and specific basis.
Wildlife and chemicals don't seem to be mutually exclusive?
Friends fellow gardeners. Might I suggest, without getting my head blown off. Look we are in general a great bunch. If you are like me. I really hate disposing of anything. So what say we start a thread indicating waht we no longer require? Let's face it we get so many new to gardening joining us. A new home and garden. What can I fill the garden with. Please don't simply dump plants.
Similar with me KEF. The pink pampas always looked washy washy.....either Sunningdale Silver or none. And the photInias all seem to look ill after a few years
Don't suppose anyone would want a poorly looking photinia
How odd Don't know how that quote of Woody appeared up there - more coffee needed methinks
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I run a garden group here - several nationalities, all sizes and styles of garden and levels of ability and many new to gardening in northern Europe with its seasons and hardiness issues.
We meet once or twice a month in each other's gardens from late March to early November and advise each other on what, where and how to do various gardening tasks and we swap spare plants raised from seed, cuttings and division. We also offer spare plants to an annual sale for charity.
Even so, I find I get left with surplus plants and the only place left for them to go is the compost heap so they're not entirely wasted.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
As some of you know, some of the East Anglian forum members meet up from time to time to visit gardens (and eat cake and chat). Another major activity at these events is plant swapping
Panda has her name on some of my Jap. Anemones which she'll get next spring.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
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Yesterday I dug up and composted about 2 square metres of phlomis russeliana which is a plant I like but not when it's on a takeover bid. I also dug up several clumps of sorbaria which has turned out to be a suckering shrub. Fine when it stays along the boundary but not when invading my border.
Next on the list is lysimachia clethroides alba which I really like but has also proved to be jut a bit too happy so a couple of clumps will be dug up for a newly cleared area over and the rest will be composted.
Next year's big project is to clear and replant the beds around the pond. They've been invaded by flag iris and yellow dead nettle and rush grasses which can all go.
Hi Verdun,
The soil in that area is an ongoing curiosity to me as a fairly new gardener and it's quite likely the buzzez didn't like it. It's improved clay, not amazing drainage and bakes hard in summer. I've lost a couple of achillea over a winter which I would expect but others excel in the area and I have non-species tulips repeat flowering...I'll dig in some more muck and dig out some more clag and see what happens
If I dig anything out, I dont think of it as dumped, just put back into the earth in a different form...compost.
Cardoon, Yucca gloriosa, boring green phormium, and pink pampas grass have gone this year and a yellow tree peony has a new home with a neighbour. I have my eye on the photinia red robin which I've fallen out with.
Mike, this thread has been around for quite a while http://www.gardenersworld.com/forum/the-potting-shed/wish-list-for-seed-and-plant-swap/406023.html
It's not as easy to swap plants as seeds due to postage etc; it is done - but more usually by passing on rooted cuttings etc.
Not really practical to dig up a well-grown phormium, yucca, pampas or photinia and parcel it up and send it off
Of course, many of us swap with friends, relatives and neighbours - but that's different isn't it?
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Don't suppose anyone would want a poorly looking photinia
How odd
Don't know how that quote of Woody appeared up there - more coffee needed methinks 
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I run a garden group here - several nationalities, all sizes and styles of garden and levels of ability and many new to gardening in northern Europe with its seasons and hardiness issues.
We meet once or twice a month in each other's gardens from late March to early November and advise each other on what, where and how to do various gardening tasks and we swap spare plants raised from seed, cuttings and division. We also offer spare plants to an annual sale for charity.
Even so, I find I get left with surplus plants and the only place left for them to go is the compost heap so they're not entirely wasted.
As some of you know, some of the East Anglian forum members meet up from time to time to visit gardens (and eat cake and chat). Another major activity at these events is plant swapping
Panda has her name on some of my Jap. Anemones which she'll get next spring.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.